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Get round to
Find time to do - also around
Get rid of
Throw away
Get in on (an activity)
to start participating
Stick to
To do sg that you promised or decided you would do, or that you believe you should do
Cut down on
Decrease the amount of
Come to
Be a question of, concern Start to talk about sg. To become conscious
Get on with SO
Have a friendly relationship
get on with (an activity)
continue doing it
Put back
To change the time or date of an event so that it happens later than originally planned To put something in the place where it was before it was moved To change the time of a clock or watch to an earlier time
Get around
Move from one place to another
Put through
Make sb. do a test Connect someone to the person they want to speak to on the telephone
Get back at sb.
Take revenge
Look forward to
To feel happy and excited about something that is going to happen
Get back into (an activity)
to start getting involve in it again
Send away for
Order by post
See to
Deal with, do sg. about
Look around
Explore
Carry on with
Continue
Get by
Just manage to live or do sg.
Manage under difficult circumstances
Turn away
Refuse entry
Put down to
Give as a reason
Let sb in on
To tell someone a secret
Get into (a Subject)
to start getting interested in it
Attend to
Serve a customer in a shop, restaurant etc
Head for
Going somewhere
Toy/Play with
To consider an idea in a way that is not serious or definite
Fall for
To believe that a trick or a joke is true
Go back
To return to a person, place, subject, or activity To have existed since or for a particular time When the clocks go back, everyone changes the time on their clocks so that they show a time that is one hour earlier than before
Come up with
To think of something such as an idea or a plan
Take out on
Blame on SO for STH you did
Bargain for
Take into account
Get together
Meet up
Fall back on
Have sg. to use when you are in difficulty
Pull through
Recover from a serious illness
Take after
Inherit outlook and/or personality from parents
Bring round
Influence someone to your point of view To make someone who is unconscious become conscious
Come over
To pay a casual visit If a feeling comes over you, it suddenly affects you in a strong way If sb or sg comes across in a particular way, you have a particular opinion of them when you meet them or see them
Live up to
To be as good as what was expected or promised
Go through with
Do sg. you aren’t happy about
Let in on (the secret)
Communicate a secret
Stand up to
To not allow yourself to be treated badly, especially by someone in authority To not be changed or damaged by something
Brush aside
To refuse to accept that something is important or true
Run over
Injure/kill someone with a car Practise a performance Explain something again
Get through to sb.
Make sb. understand sg.
Get back
Return to place Receive/have something again Start doing something again To return to the state or condition you were in before
Hand over
To give something to someone by holding it in your hand and offering it to them To give power or control to someone else
Get round
Manipulate
Fall in love
Fall in love with - colloquial
Pass away
Die
Stand up for
To defend someone or something that is being criticized or attacked
Fall about
Show amusement especially laughing colloquial
Catch up with
Speed up to be at the same place as a person or thing in front of you To improve in order to reach the same standard or rate as someone or something
Go back on
Not keep a promise
Get away
Escape
Go for a Holiday
Come in for
To receive something such as criticism
Get behind (with work)
Be slower or not making the same progress as other people
Keep up with
Stay in schedule with (a person the workload homework)
Go in for
Do regularly (such as sport)
Getting at STH
Explaining STH
Come across
Find, meet by chance If someone or something comes across in a particular way, you have a particular opinion of them when you meet them or see them
Get behind (SO/STH)
Support
Try to help it succeed
Take back
To admit that something you said to or about someone was wrong To take something that you have bought back to the shops because it is broken or not suitable
Back out of
Not keep (a promise, agreement, deal)
Break through
To successfully deal with something that is stopping you making progress If something that was hidden breaks through something, it appears through it
Come about
Happen
Get STH across
Be understood - especially get an idea across
Get around (a difficulty)
Find a way to avoid it
Can’t get over sg.
Used for saying that you are very surprised by something
Fall over (oneself)
try very hard or want very much to do sg.
Make of
To understand someone or the meaning of something in a particular way
Press for
Try hard to get
Get to the wrong end of the stick
Misunderstand
Set back
To delay the progress of someone or sg
Look up to
Respect, admire someone
Stand in for
Take someone’s place
Get along with SO
Have a friendly relationship
Make up for
Compensate for
Leap at an opportunity/chance
Jump to the chance, take the chance
Fall through
To not be completed or not happen
Bring back
To cause ideas, feelings, or memories to be in your mind again Make a dead person live
Drop out of
Quit an organized activity (school)
Turn over
To change the position of your body when you are lying or sleeping so that you face the opposite direction To make a particular amount of money in a particular time
Catch up on
Become up-to-date To do sg that should have been done before
Go on at
Come against
Bring STH about
Cause to happen
Get out of
To avoid doing something that you should do or that you said you would do
Take over
To take control of something
Looking formats to
Anticipate with pleasure
Get up to
To do something, especially something that you should not do Do sg. naughty, fun
Fall behind
Fail to keep up with sg.
Fit in with
Your personality matches into the group To be correct, suitable, or sensible in relation to something else
Get over
Overcome / to recover from To make people understand something
Go with
Match, suit
Come around
To recover, revive / to change opinion or decision / visit someone
Grow out of
If children grow out of clothes, they grow bigger and the clothes become too small for them If someone grows out of a habit, they stop doing it, because they are older or wiser
Stand for
If someone stands for a particular principle, they believe that principle is important If a letter, an abbreviation, or a symbol stands for something, that is what it means or represents
Take sg. out on
To make someone suffer because you are angry, upset, or tired, even though it is not their fault
Face up to
Acknowledge STH difficult or embarrassing
Come forward
Give information
Stand for election
Apply like a candidate
Look down on
To think that you are better or more important than someone else, or to think that something is not good enough for you
Call for
To demand To say publicly that sg must happen To make something necessary or suitable
Stand by
To be ready to act / to remain loyal
Bring forward
To change the date or time of an event so that it happens earlier To announce plans or ideas officially so that people can discuss them
Hear from
Receive a letter or phone call
Feel up to
Have the energy to do STH
See through
Realise what sb is really like
Cut back on
Reduce
Go/Come down with
Catch some kind of illness
Look back on
To remember nostalgically
Put up with
Tolerate
Get though with
Finish after a long delay
Fish for compliments
Desire to get appoval
Run out of
Not have any more of sg.
Go along with
Agree with sb.
Do away with
Abolish - colloquial Murder - colloquial
Get at
Succeed to reach or touch sth To discover the true facts about something
Get ahead
to progress financially or in your career.
Put by/away/aside
Save some money
Give away
To reveal or make known / to make a gift of
Put forward
To propose for consideration To change the time or date of an event so that it happens earlier than originally planned To change the time of a clock or watch to a later time
Get along
Have a very good relationship
Stand up to
Defend oneself against SO or STH
Pay back
To give someone the same amount of money that you borrowed from them
Ask after
Inquire about
Get away with
Do STH against the rules or illegal and not get caught or punish
Go through
To perform / to experience
Go on with
Continue (a plan a conversation )
Get over with
Come to the end of STH usually unpleasant
Run though
Review quickly
Get down to (a job)
Start to do it attentively
